US
Holocaust Commission
And Holocaust Denial
By Dr Gideon Polya
01 February, 2007
Countercurrents.org
The
US recently successfully put a Resolution to UN General Assembly RIGHTLY
condemning Holocaust Denial. However the Resolution ignored huge non-Jewish
Holocausts e.g. the US-driven Iraqi Holocaust and thus was Holocaust
Ignoring, something even WORSE than Holocaust Denial because it is Passive
Holocaust Denial that admits of no refutation – who does one refute
something that has not even been asserted?
This US Resolution was an
act of (a) gross dishonesty and (b) gross hypocrisy. Thus (a) the dishonest
IMPLICATION was that Iran (not mentioned in the Resolution but mentioned
in the US and Israeli UN speeches) has offended – yet the Iranian
delegate made it quite clear that Iran recognized the horror of the
Jewish Holocaust and condemned the “Genocide and immense sufferings
associated with that horrific crime” (words of the Iranian delegate)
(see: http://www.newsbull.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40398
); and (b) the US is actively involved in on-going Holocaust Commission
in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan and, together with Israel,
has been involved in obscene, public promotion of an Iranian Holocaust
involving nuclear weapons.
By NOT specifying OTHER Holocausts
the US Resolution was an act of egregious Holocaust Ignoring i.e. PASSIVE
Holocaust Denial. The Resolution SHOULD have condemned ANY denial of
ANY Holocaust.
Major Holocausts over the
last century or so NOT mentioned in the US Resolution include the following
(in order of occurrence): the 1904-1907 German Namibian Genocide (the
Herero population dropped from 80,000 to 15,000); the 1915-1918 Turkish
Armenian Genocide (1 million victims – still denied by Turkey);
the 1930-1933 Russian Ukrainian Genocide (5 million victims); the 1937-1945
Japanese invasion of China (35 million Chinese victims); the non-Jewish
victims of the Nazi German World War 2 Holocaust – 20 million
Soviet citizens, 6 million Poles (half of them Jewish), 1 million Serbs,
0.5 million other Yugoslavs and 0.5 million Roma (Gypsies); the man-made,
1943/44 British Bengali Holocaust (4 million victims – still largely
written out of British history books); the 1947 Indian Partition (1
million victims); the 1994 Hutu Rwandan Genocide (1 million victims);
the 1971 West Pakistani Bengali Holocaust (3 million victims, 80% male;
0.3 million women raped by the US-backed West Pakistan military); the
1965 Indonesian Genocide (1 million victims); the 1975-2000 Indonesian
East Timorese Genocide (0.2 million victims out of a population of about
0.6 million); the US Indo-China war (13 million excess deaths); the
post-1950 First World-driven Third World Holocaust (1.2 billion excess
deaths, mainly in Africa, Asia and South America); and the post-1950
First World-driven Muslim Holocaust (0.6 billion excess deaths; mainly
in Africa and Asia).
Conspicuously absent from
the US Resolution were the ongoing 1990-2007 Iraqi Holocaust ( 2.6 million
excess deaths and 3.7 million refugees so far); and the 2001-2007 Afghan
Holocaust (2.2 million excess deaths and 3.7 million refugees so far)
(see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11293/42/
, http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11849/42/
, http://mwcnews.net/content/view/12163/42/
and http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11968/42/
) .
Not content with horrendous
Holocaust Commission and Holocaust Denial in relation to the Iraqi Genocide
(Iraqi Holocaust) and the Afghan Genocide (Afghan Holocaust), the US
and its proxy Israel have both been threatening pre-emptive nuclear
attack on peaceful, non-nuclear-armed, non-aggressive Iran (a Google
search for the obscene phrase “nuke Iran” and for the phrase
“Jewish Holocaust” today yielded about 0.3 million URLs
in both cases) – clear, unequivocal and horrifying Holocaust Promotion.
It is not only the US that
is involved in Holocaust Promotion, Holocaust Commission, Holocaust
Ignoring and Holocaust Denial - the UK, Australia and their Coalition
and NATO Allies are also involved in Holocaust Commission and Holocaust
Denial in relation to both Afghanistan and Iraq (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11293/42/
). Racist White Australia has been involved in all the US post-1950
Asian wars, is currently actively involved in the Iraqi Holocaust and
the Afghan Holocaust and is in practical denial over the appalling,
ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide (the annual death rate of Australian
Aborigines, 2.2%, is similar to that of Australian sheep, 2.5%) (see:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10865/26/
). Israel as a key partner in US-Israeli State Terrorism is involved
in an ongoing Palestinian Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 0.3
million; 6 million Palestinian refugees; 3.5 million Occupied Palestinians
held in abusive captivity for 40 years) (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11409/42/
).
The Occupier of another country
has acute, unequivocal responsibilities under the Geneva Conventions
to keep its conquered subjects ALIVE (read them, especially Articles
55 & 56: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm
). The US, UK, Australia, the Coalition and NATO have grossly violated
these obligations in Occupied Afghanistan as shown by the following
estimations from UN Population Division data and UNICEF data.
(a) From UN Population Division
data (see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/
) the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did
not have to happen) in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan now total
(as of January 2007) 0.9 million and 2.2 million, respectively - mostly
Women and Children and mostly through US alliance violation of the Geneva
Conventions.
(b) From the same source,
the post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Iraq and Occupied
Afghanistan now total 0.5 million and 1.9 million, respectively.
(c) Year 2005 annual under-5
infant death rate (i.e. as a percentage: deaths for every 100 under-5
year old infants in 2005 in a particular country) was 6.7% (Occupied
Afghanistan ); 2.8% (Occupied Iraq); 5.5% (Occupied Somalia); 2.7% (Occupied
Haiti); and 0.47% (Occupied Palestinian Territory) – as compared
to 0.12% (Occupier Australia) and 0.12% (Occupier Israel)(as determined
from the latest UNICEF data: http://www.unicef.org/
; for detailed analysis see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11968/42/
).
The war criminality of what
the US and its allies the UK, Australia, and complicit Coalition and
NATO countries are doing in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories
can be most dramatically seen by comparing the above annual under-5
infant death rates in those Occupied Territories (2.8% and 6.7%, respectively)
with the “annual death rate” of 10% for Australian prisoners
of war (POWs) of the Japanese in WW2 - noting that for crimes such as
this Japanese generals were tried and hanged in the aftermath of that
conflict.
In summary, the US recently
put up a UN resolution RIGHTLY condemning the obscenity of Holocaust
Denial - however this was an act of gross hypocrisy and dishonesty because
the Resolution IGNORED numerous OTHER Holocausts including the ON-GOING
Iraqi Holocaust and the ON-GOING Afghan Holocaust (post-invasion excess
deaths 0.9 million and 2.2 million, respectively PLUS refugees totalling
about 3.7 million for EACH occupied country EQUALS Genocide and Holocaust).
The US, the UK and their Allies are involved in Holocaust Promotion,
Holocaust Commission, Holocaust Ignoring and Holocaust Denial in relation
to both Afghanistan and Iraq (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11293/42/
).
Peace is the only way but
silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people are absolutely
obliged to INFORM OTHERS about such horrendous abuses of humanity and
to act ethically in all their dealings with those complicit in such
horrendous crimes. Sanctions and Boycotts that were effective against
the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa are surely urgently required
now in the face of egregious Anglo-American Holocaust Promotion, Holocaust
Commission, Holocaust Ignoring and Holocaust Denial.
Dr Gideon Polya
published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently
a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant
Bioactive Compounds" (Taylor & Francis, New York & London,
2003). He is a Melbourne scientist and writer and is currently editing
a completed book on global avoidable mortality (numerous articles on
this matter can be found by a simple Google search for "Gideon
Polya" and on his websites: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html
and http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/).
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